Nawanshahr June 8- Indian Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu) Punjab has decided to submit a memorandum to MLAs to withdraw the amendment made by Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act as against the interests of workers.
Giving information, Iftu State Press Secretary Jasbir Deep said that this decision was taken in an online meeting of Iftu State Committee in which Iftu State President Kulwinder Singh Waraich, State Secretary Raj Singh Malout, Assistant Secretary Avtar Singh Tari, Juginderpal Gurdaspur and other State Committee members participated. He said that this amendment is an attack on the rights of workers.
The Mann government has given the legal right to the employers to take 12-12 hours of work from the workers. This is an attack on the right of workers that workers all over the world had achieved in the form of 8-hour daily wage after struggling for about 139 years. 
The Mann government has exempted shops and commercial establishments with 20 workers from registration and has also taken away the right of the workers working in them to form their own registered union. In these establishments, no overtime was given to the workers before and will not be given in future. 
In this way, the Mann government is secretly implementing the four anti-worker labor codes of the Modi government at the center. In shops and commercial establishments, workers were already required to work for 10 hours instead of 8 hours, but the Mann government has exposed its anti-labor face by increasing their daily wage to 12 hours.